Arts & Entertainment
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Tribute to Verdi operas and other Italian classics
It will be an evening focusing on the best music that Italy and its composers have to offer at the Concerto all’Italiana, with opera singer baritone Orazio Mori giving his own Omaggio a Giuseppe Verdi to celebrate the 200th anniversary from his...
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Italian violinist for lunchtime concert
Italian violinist Giulia Tavano and Hungarian cellist Akos Kertesz, both from Kalypso Ensemble and both members of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, will be giving a lunchtime concert on Thursday at Our Lady of Victory church, Valletta, at...
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Raising awareness about domestic violence through theatre
One out of every four people in Malta, at some point in their lives, goes through some form of domestic violence. Pretty Lisa is a theatre project whose aim is to voice, out loud, the horrific situations victims of such abuse go through. The work...
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Mother’s Day concert at St James Cavalier
A chamber music concert will be held today to celebrate Mother’s day. The concert is being performed by the Kalypso String Quartet at the Music Room, St James Cavalier, Valletta, at 7.30pm. The ensemble will perform some of the most beautiful pages...
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Organist Diego Cannizzaro in St John’s Co-Cathedral concert
The unique oratory of St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, with one of the oldest 17th-century church organs in Europe, will be the venue of an organ recital given by renowned organist Diego Cannizzaro. The recital is being held on Friday at...
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New call for the National Book Prize
Entries are being accepted for this year’s edition of the National Book Prize. The award is organised by the National Book Council with the aim of giving due recognition to the Maltese book, together with awards and grants to publications by Maltese...
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Saturn – the ringed planet
Saturn is at its closest to the Earth this month, at a distance of around 1,300 million kilometres. Even at its closest approach to the Earth, however, it is not possible to distinguish anything more than a star-like point of light with the naked...
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OJ Simpson to seek new trial in Vegas
OJ Simpson will return to the Las Vegas courthouse where he was convicted of leading an armed sports memorabilia heist to ask a judge for a new trial on the grounds that his lawyer botched his case. Simpson will take the witness stand next week to...
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Wagner opera cancelled in Germany
A Nazi-themed staging of a Wagner opera in Germany that caused some members of the audience to become sick with its scenes of murder and a gas chamber has been withdrawn, the opera company said on its website. After failing to get the director to...
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Vin Diesel to keep revving up
Fast and Furious star Vin Diesel has promised the franchise will keep revving up, as the sixth film premiered in London. The 45-year-old actor, who has reprised his role as street racer and wanted fugitive Dominic Toretto in Fast and Furious 6, was...
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Beam me up, Scotty!
Ever since Gene Roddenberry’s TV series Star Trek debuted in 1966, it ignited scientists’ imagination like a supernova and soon became part of popular culture. But can we really travel at warp speed? Is the USS Enterprise transporter technology...
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Handwritten Larkin poem nets £7,500
A handwritten poem by Philip Larkin has sold for £7,500 in London. Titled Love, it was written in 1962 on a sheet of paper apparently torn from a notebook. Its first lines read: “The difficult part of love/ Is being selfish enough,/ Is having the...
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Film director Bryan Forbes dies
Film director Bryan Forbes has died following a long illness, a family spokesman said. Forbes, whose work includes the original 1970s horror classic Stepford Wives and Whistle Down The Wind, was 86. The “giant of cinema”, who was married to the...
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The reluctant bride
Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca’s classic tale of passion, love, lust and yearning is being staged at the Manoel Theatre this weekend. Over the course of this tragedy, we join an insular and tiny and gossipy village that is preparing to...
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Happy in her own skin
TheatreI Am My Own WifeValletta Waterfront Bravery is often associated with feats of daring and achievement on the battlefield, but we often tend to forget that the greatest battlefield of all is not necessarily in a war zone, but exists along the...
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Circles of hell
Veteran thespian Mario Micallef will be performing a 65-minute monologue, Id-Divina Commedia, as part of the Notte Gozitana, being organised by the Department of Culture of Gozo, this weekend. Based on Alfred Palma’s exhaustive translation from the...
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Luhrmann takes on a challenging classic with The Great Gatsby in 3D
It is hailed as ‘the great American novel’, but so far The Great Gatsby has defied attempts by some of Hollywood’s top film-makers to bring its lyrically romantic story and tragic characters to cinematic life. But that did not faze director Baz...
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Sins of the father
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)Certified: 16Duration: 140 minutesDirector: Derek CianfranceStarring: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Ben Mendelsohn, Rose Byrne, Mahershala Ali, Bruce Greenwood, Harris Yulin, Dane DeHaan,...
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Tales from the Deep South
The Paperboy (2012)Certified: 18Duration: 101 minutesDirector: Lee DanielsStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray, John Cusack, Nicole Kidman, Scott Glenn, Nikolette Noel, Ned BellamyKRS release The Paperboy is an adaption...
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War in the White House
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)Certified: 16Duration: 120 minutesDirector: Antoine FuquaStarring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Rick Yune, Dylan McDermott, Finley Jacobsen, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Robert Forster, Cole...
